The Man with the Compound Eyes

Ming-Yi Wu

On Wayo-wayo, a fictional island in the South Pacific, every second son has to sail into the wide sea as sacrifice to the Sea God on the day he turns fifteen. Atile'i is one such boy. Being the strongest swimmer and best sailor on the island, he sets out to defy destiny. His journey takes him across the...

The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson #4)

Robert A. Caro

Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era' (The Times) Robert Caro's monumental work on American President Lyndon Johnson is 'a breathtakingly dramatic story [told] with consummate artistry and ardor' (The New York Times) and ' a work of greatness, of such acute observation of politics that its ins...